STAX(6)

📦 version 1.37, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

ok so bestie, meet stax — it's literally a whole collection of puzzle games 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

stax

that's it. that's the whole vibe. just run it 🦋

💅 HOW TO PLAY 💅

okay so the goal of these games is basically: get rid of the blocks as fast as you possibly can and do not let them rise all the way to the top 😭

and how do you get rid of blocks, you ask? you gotta line up 3 or more of the same type of blocks in a row — horizontal or vertical, either one slays ✨

ngl, usually getting more than 3 in a row will make the other players' blocks rise faster 👀 so like… go for big combos, it's giving strategy 🔥

a few keys work the same in every single game, no cap:

  • Escape — Quit (it prompts you first, so no accidental rage-quits 💀)
  • P — Pause (press any key except P to unpause 🫶)
  • Backspace — Screenshot (saved as stax????.pcx in the current directory 📸)

and the config of all the other keys? that's described in the README file in the documentation directory of Stax:

/usr/share/doc/stax/README.gz

go read it, iykyk 🌸

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

this manual page was written by Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others 💜). and the upstream author of Stax is Trent Gamblin <tmg@cyberlink.bc.ca> 👑

ok that's the whole page, bestie — shoutout to the Games Manual for STAX(6), dated April 12, 2001. iconic era, fr fr 🎀✨💖

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